Contents tagged with IIS7.5
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Require Client Certificates in IIS 7.5
Systems administrators often mistakenly correlate client certificates with SSL server certificates. Here is a great post from David Dietz that helps clear up some of the misconceptions.
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Restricting web site traffic in IIS 7 and IIS 8
Sometimes you need to restrict traffic to your web site or reduce the impact from a rogue bot that is hitting it. Often, the first thought is to restrict that traffic at the perimeter firewall. While that is a good choice, the structure of your organization may prevent that from happening in a timely manner. Or maybe you are frequently making changes to the restrictions making that a cumbersome chore.
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Serving files from a remote server in IIS 7
There is a question that I have been seeing more of in recent weeks. While it comes in different varieties, the essence of it has to do with having your files located on a server or device other than the IIS web server.
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Configuration files for Internet Information Services
I continue to see questions and confusion about the configuration of Internet Information Services (IIS). I hope to clear up some of the confusion by the time you have finished reading this post.
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Enabling Failed Request Tracing
Occasionally I get questions on how to troubleshoot intermittent issues in IIS. One example is an intermittent 500 status code and another example is a slow page load. In IIS7 and later there is a simple module that you can install as part of IIS called Failed Request Tracing (FREB).